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Thoracic

October 12, 2014
EACTS Secretary General A. Pieter Kappetein discusses highlights of the 2014 EACTS Annual Meeting taking place in Milan, Italy.
October 11, 2014
EACTS President Paul Van Schil and Past President Jose Pomar discuss exciting aspects and special features of the 2014 EACTS Annual Meeting taking place in Milan, Italy.
October 9, 2014
This paper presents an update on diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in malignant pleural mesothelioma considering also recent molecular biologic achievements as microRNA and genomic sequencing.
October 9, 2014
Michael Bemelman of the University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands, discusses the resurgence of rib fixation surgery. Dr. Bemelman details the history and evolving techniques of rib fixation surgery.
October 8, 2014
Stephen Yang of Johns Hopkins discusses the importance of mentorship in cardiothoracic surgery. Dr. Yang encourages fellow surgeons to become active mentors to medical students as well as CT surgery residents, and shares advice for mentoring millennials.
October 8, 2014
This multicenter prospective trial evaluated the impact of induction therapy on anastomotic leak (AL) and other complications after esophagectomy.  Of 2944 included pts, 593 had induction chemoradiotherapy.  AL occurred in 8.8% of induction therapy pts compared to 10.6% of surgery only patients.  90 day postoperative morbidity and mortality rates wer
October 8, 2014
The authors investigated the impact of new onset a-fib after esophagectomy in 437 pts.  Risk factors included age, diabetes, induction therapy, and cardiac history.  A-fib was associated with postoperative pneumonia, symptomatic pleural effusions, and an increase in C-reactive protein.  It was not associated with anastomotic leak or mortality.  92% o
October 8, 2014
The histologic response to induction therapy is usually a binary function.  In the current study, the authors explored methods of refining the histologic response classification to improve prediction of prognosis for patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma.  They identified 3 unique groups: major response in the primary tumor with ypN0; either major
October 8, 2014
It has recently been reported that the number of lymph nodes resected during esophagectomy is related to long-term survival, leading to recommendations for the proper extent of nodal dissection.  The current study used data from the CROSS trial to investigate this relationship in groups of esophagectomy patients with and without induction chemoradiot
October 8, 2014
It has recently been reported that a longer interval to esophagectomy following induction therapy results in higher pathologic response rates.  The current study used data from the CROSS trial to determine whether a longer interval to esophagectomy following induction therapy results in improved survival.  Time to surgery (TTS) was a median of 48 day

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